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[–] barubary@infosec.exchange 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

$ python3 -c 'f = (lambda x: x + 0.5 - 0.5); print(f(2**52))'  4503599627370495.5

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago

Ahh, contrived examples of floating point errors. I haven't seen those since I asked Javascript to add 0.1 and 0.2 :)